September 1st, 7 AM.
Valiant Gunner opens his livestream early.
Livestream location: Community gym.
Livestream activity: 3km jog.
A few days ago, a single sentence from Xu Meng in an interview sparked a running craze among players.
Now, five days have passed, and players who were just joining the fun and those with weak willpower have stopped checking in and returned to their comfortable, laid-back lives.
But those who have persisted mostly feel the joy that running brings—
The body slowly awakens, energy becomes more vigorous, and willpower and focus are noticeably improved.
Especially as each day passes, the time they can persist gets longer and longer, and the distance they run gets farther and farther.
This visible progress is truly encouraging.
After all, many things in life are in vain—you painstakingly write a dozen pages of proposals, only for the client to casually reject them and ask you to rewrite them, even cursing you for writing garbage in their mind.
But the sense of progress brought by exercise is real and genuine.
One more day of practice, one more day of progress.
—At least in the initial stages.
Valiant Gunner has developed a habit of livestreaming his check-ins every day, and he also encourages his fans to exercise together, showing some characteristics of a positive energy streamer.
But after he finishes his running check-in, washes up, and sits back at his computer desk, he quickly transforms back into a fanatical gamer:
"Brothers! Today is a big day!"
"'Frost and Snow Project' monthly update, 'King of War' demo patch update, haptic suits, haptic gloves, VR glasses, motion capture matrix, omnidirectional treadmill all shipped!"
"Whichever updates first, we'll play that first!"
"Same with the hardware, whichever arrives first, we'll use that first!"
This isn't his usual livestream time, not to mention it's Monday, so the number of viewers in the livestream is less than half of what it is at night.
But even so, there are still more than 80,000 people squatting in the livestream to watch the excitement.
—The current Valiant Gunner is indeed not what he used to be!
With the take-off of Zhumeng, he also rose with the tide, and his attention has greatly increased.
However, the comments in the livestream at this time are somewhat off-topic:
"Aji, when are you going to raffle off the VR glasses?"
"That's right, Zhumeng has already sent you a pair, why would you buy another pair?"
"Raffle it to me! Raffle it to me! I really need it!"
"I'll buy it for double the price, okay? Damn Zhumeng, I just hesitated a little, and they won't even let me pre-order."
"Just thinking about it is outrageous, million pairs of glasses, pre-ordered in two days, insane!"
…
Valiant Gunner looked at the comments and sighed speechlessly:
"It's been a few days, why haven't you guys given up yet?"
"Get this straight! The VR glasses that Boss Xu sent me are engraved with my ID and honorary player number!"
"Is this something to be used?"
"This is for display and appreciation!"
"In the future, it will be passed on to my children, generation after generation."
On the 28th, after these hardware devices were available for pre-order in the Zhumeng store, the haptic suits and haptic gloves were all pre-ordered on the same day.
The next day, VR glasses, motion capture matrix, and omnidirectional treadmills were all pre-ordered.
On the third day, the war simulator was also pre-ordered.
At this point, the Zhumeng store was emptied in disguise, and all pre-order options turned gray.
At first, everyone thought it was a website malfunction, then everyone hoped that Zhumeng would release a second batch of goods, and finally, everyone wished that Zhumeng would restock on the official release date of September 1st.
But now, all these expectations have fallen through.
Zhumeng really only had that much stock, and it was all emptied in one go.
A bunch of people ran to Zhumeng's various official accounts to ask questions, urging them to restock quickly.
But equipment can't be conjured out of thin air, it's impossible to restock immediately if they want to.
In the end, the official account of [Nerve Roaming] jumped out to take the blame, issuing an apology announcement, admitting that they underestimated the enthusiasm of the players, and said that the factory was already speeding up the production of the next batch of products.
At the latest, the second batch will be available within a month.
To this, the players said:
"Is an apology useful? If apologies were useful, what would we need the police for?"
"You have time to issue an announcement? With this time, you might as well go to the workshop to tighten screws!"
"A month? After a month, the daylilies will be cold! My wife is going to run away with someone else!"
"Do you know how to make money? The 'King of War' demo only has that little content, after a month the heat will be long gone, who would buy it?"
…
Duan Siyu is under great pressure.
Xu Meng told him to relax: "After a month, players will certainly lose their freshness to the current game content, but by then there will also be more new content."
"Don't worry about these, time is always on our side."
When saying these words, Xu Meng had already built the virtual login space of the [Zhumeng Game Platform], and also used Zhumeng's existing technology to add some not-too-complicated interesting functions.
—After Xiaomeng completely graduates, as long as it's not developing completely new functions, the efficiency is really terrifying.
So he is full of confidence.
Seeing the boss so calm, Duan Siyu felt relieved, and turned around to continue doing his job.
In addition to paying attention to hardware sales, he himself is also a member of the R\u0026D team, and is still researching haptic socks.
—
At this moment, players who didn't manage to pre-order haptic suits for various reasons can only keep refreshing the product page.
Praying that someone doesn't really want to buy it, and only chose to pre-order to join the fun and post on social networks.
In this case, if they don't pay the final balance today, the pre-ordered items will be unlocked and reappear on the shelves, available for repurchase.
Indeed, this situation has already occurred. Some players on Mengjin have posted that they saw the grayed-out option flash briefly.
The speculation is that someone gave up their pre-order, but the product was snatched up at lightning speed as soon as it was released.
It's just like snatching train tickets, a competition of luck and hand speed.
A whale player, a fanatic virtual wife collector, a cyber渣男—Huan Yue, is also waiting anxiously.
He's also had a pretty miserable time with this.
Unlike those who were too busy to pay attention, or hesitated to see which way the wind was blowing, and ended up missing the pre-order.
From the first time he experienced the haptic suit, he was determined to buy it.
But after the Cologne Game Show, Zh Meng only drew 10 people to give away the haptic suits.
He didn't get drawn.
At the invitation of the Three Musketeers of International Students, he went to Berlin for a tour and visited their school.
Then, on the 28th, Huan Yue woke up and saw that the Zh Meng store was accepting pre-orders, and he took out his phone to pre-order the haptic sync suit without a second thought.
The Three Musketeers of International Students did the same.
But immediately, the four of them looked up again, facing each other.
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Because the same prompt box popped up on their phones—
"We are very sorry!
This product is temporarily unavailable for pre-order or purchase in your region.
We are doing our best to promote the global sale of this product, please be patient."
Huan Yue's mouth opened silently, and a strong sense of foreboding surged in his heart.
"What the f*ck! I'm a Xia country person, why won't you sell it to me?" One of the guys broke down.
"Because of Germany's import policy restrictions?" The orthopedic brother was relatively rational, giving a guess based on his major, "Does the haptic suit have to apply for the relevant medical device license in Germany?"
"Is that important?" The last guy was anxious, "Let me turn on the proxy. It says regional restrictions, I'll change my IP and see if it works."
"Yes, yes, yes, change the IP!" Huan Yue grabbed at the lifeline, quickly turning on the proxy.
Then, with trembling fingers, he clicked on pre-order again.
But in his desperate eyes, the prompt box popped up again.
Unwilling to accept it, he switched to the [Haptic Glove] page.
But the result was the same, unable to pre-order due to regional reasons.
A little numb, he switched to the VR glasses again, clicked casually, and paid the deposit.
Fingerprint payment, pre-order successful.
"?"
Huan Yue felt that something was wrong.
He switched to the motion capture matrix and the omnidirectional treadmill pages again, trying to pre-order one by one.
The results were all successful!
"So...everything else is okay, only the haptic sync suit and haptic gloves are not okay??"
"Are you f*cking kidding me??"
Without thinking, Huan Yue immediately contacted friends in China to help him pre-order.
Then he found that these two things were limited, with each person able to buy at most one haptic suit and one pair of haptic gloves.
His friends had already pre-ordered them.
Forced to do so, he sent a message in the iron fan group, offering to buy a brand new, unopened haptic sync suit and a pair of haptic gloves at double the price.
Immediately, a bunch of people were willing.
To ensure nothing went wrong, he contacted the five most familiar people, all agreeing to buy them at double the price.
Now, he is anxiously waiting for the five hardcore fans to receive the packages and send them to him.
He hasn't touched his wife Huo Huo's little hands in 8 years!
He really can't wait any longer!
Especially when he thinks that today, a million-strong army will put on the haptic sync suit, put on VR glasses, and meet with Huo Huo, but he, the husband, can only watch from outside the screen...
This really makes him unable to control his expression!
—
On the other side, Geek Star also received the delivery message.
He directly called the deliveryman, promising to give extra tips if he delivered the goods to him first.
800 yuan for delivery within 1 hour, 500 yuan within 2 hours.
The deliveryman immediately assured him that he would wait at home.
After getting the promise, Geek Star quickly sent out a live broadcast preview, with the time set for 1 hour later.
Then he excitedly looked at the background, expecting the reservation data to take off.
But as he waited, he felt something was wrong—
The data growth is too slow!
Usually, even if he broadcasts a mobile phone drop test from the 1st floor to the 6th floor, the number of reservations can break 30,000 within 1 hour.
But now...
The popularity of Zh Meng is high, and what he is unboxing is the highly anticipated black technology haptic suit and haptic gloves, it is normal for it to break 100,000 in an hour!
But now...why is the data growing by one or two at a time?
"Am I being traffic limited?"
He carefully checked the dynamic and did not see the small yellow label for traffic limitation.
Asking customer service, customer service also said no.
But the data just doesn't go up.
A full half hour passed before the number of reservations barely broke 1000, which made him simply doubt his life.
Geek Star realized that there should be something wrong here.
But he couldn't figure out where the problem was.
The phone vibrated, the courier arrived.
Too late to think about it, he went out to sign for the package, and quickly prepared for the live broadcast after returning.
—No matter what, there is no turning back once the bow is drawn, and the peak of popularity will not return once it is missed.
Unboxing is imperative!
Maybe it's just a bug in the live broadcast reservation system?
He comforted himself in his heart.
Asking for monthly tickets!
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Thanks to [Little Nineteen Eats Pomegranate] for the 1500 point reward.
Thanks to [5 Caramel Pudding] for the 100 point reward.
